Clive Standen and Liam Neeson, who played Bryan Mills in Taken (2008), are both from Northern Ireland.
In the finale of season 1, Christina Hart tells the team that Angleton, TX is "about 5 hours" from El Paso, TX. That is not even half the time it takes to make that drive. At 760 miles it is, in fact, 11 hours and 21 minutes. Texas is a big place.
At the end of the first season the show was radically overhauled, with show-runner Alexander Cary leaving the series, and Greg Plageman (Taken (2017)) coming in as the second season show-runner. With the exception of Clive Standen (Bryan Mills) and Jennifer Beals (Christina Hart), all of the first season main cast exited the series at the same time.
Taken (2017) is an action-thriller television series based on the Taken film series. It is an origin story for Bryan Mills (Clive Standen), the character played by Liam Neeson in the trilogy which were based on characters created by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. The series was commissioned with a straight-to-series-order in September 2015. and premiered on February 27, 2017, on NBC. NBC renewed the series for a second season of 16 episodes on May 9, 2017, that premiered on January 12, 2018. NBC removed the series from its schedule on April 18, 2018, and then announced that it would return on May 26, 2018. NBC canceled the series on May 11, 2018, and the final episode aired on June 30.
Jennifer Beals and Monique Gabriela Curnen who play colleagues, previously starred together in Lie to Me (2009).